Why is my username/IP address/email banned from the StatCounter forum?

Firstly, let us apologise.

We are very sorry for any confusion or upset caused by your finding yourself banned in our forum, however, please let us explain.

The forum is provided by StatCounter as a venue where members and potential members can offer help and assistance to each other, discuss ideas, get to know one another and interact in a positive way.

Unfortunately, large numbers of people have been joining the StatCounter forum simply and solely to post spam messages and links and promote certain sites (e.g. p0rn, drugs, counterfeit goods etc). These people are not StatCounter members and are not interested in contributing positively to the forum in any way.

In order to combat this kind of activity and maintain the integrity of the StatCounter forum we have found it necessary to implement a number of measures such as IP and email address banning.

IP address banning:Specific IP addresses or IP address ranges are banned when it is established that the specific IP address or range is being used for spamming purposes. Typically a range is blocked when more than 5 spammers from that address or range sign up to the forum within 1 hour.

If you find that your IP is banned you should reset your internet connection and try to log into the forum again. If the problem persists you should contact the StatCounter Support Team.

Note also that if you are using an open proxy server (e.g. for anonymous browsing) then there is a high degree of probability that you will not be able to use this IP address to sign up with the forum. This is because these kind of proxy servers are very popular with spammers and are therefore banned from our forum to safeguard it from floods of undesirable posts. In this case, the ban on your IP address cannot be lifted as to do so would allow many spammers access to our forum.

Email address banning:Certain email addresses which are commonly and frequently used by spammers are also banned in our forum.

If your email is banned, you should consider registering at the forum using an alternative email address.